Soap-bubble blower.



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CASPAR W. METTLER AND ADOLF METTLER, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTI CUT, ASSIGNORS TO FREDERICK C. ROCKWELL, OF WEST HARTFORD,

CONNECTICUT.

SOAP-BUBBLE BLOWER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 690,028, dated December 31, 1901'.f

Application led April 17, 1901. Serial No. 56,317. (No model.)

T0 all whom t may concern:

Be it known that we, GASPAR W. METTLER and ADOLE METTLER, citizens of the United States, residing at Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Soap-Bubble Blowers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to those articles of amusement which are used for the formation of soap-bubbles.

The object of the invention is to produce a simple and inexpensive article of this nature which can be manipulated by children for forming bubbles without exercising skill and without wetting the person or soiling the clothes.

The article that is illustrated as embodying the invention has Va head of flexible material connected by a yielding neck with a sti tubular stem, the head and neck being perforated in continuation of the opening through the stem, and the outer end of the perforation through the head having a recess that will hold just the requisite amount of liquid for properly forming the desired bubble.

Figure 1 of the drawings shows a side view of the article. Fig. 2 shows a side View with a portion of the stem and the neck and head in section; and Fig. 3 shows a side View, with a portion in section, ot' a modied form of the article.

The tubular stem l may be made anylength of any suitable material, the stem of the article which the drawings represent being made of a piece of bamboo. The head 2 that is shown in Figs. l and 2 is formed of a disk of rubber. Connected with this head is a flexible neck 3, that is stretched upon the end of the stem. A small perforation 4: is made through the head and neck, and in the head at the outer end of this perforation is a recess 5.

In the modified design represented by Fig.

3 there are four perfor-ations 6 through the head 7, and at the end of these perforations are recesses 8.

When the heads of these articles are thrust into a cup, bowl, or the like containing the bubble -producing liquid and are pressed against the bottom of the receptacle, the ilexible heads and necks yield to an extent and cause such a contraction of the openings in the heads and necks as to produce a slight suction, which draws just the right amount of liquid into the recesses at the ends of the perforations through the heads to form the de sired bubbles when the user blows into the mouth ends of the stems. l

With an article having a single perforation through the head but one bubble is blown at a time; but with an article having a `plural number of perforations through the head a number of bubbles may be blown simultaneously.

This simple article can be manipulated without particular care and bubbles blown without liability of taking up too great a quantity of liquid and having it drip upon the hands or clothing of the user.

We claiml. A soap-bubble blower, consising of a tubular stem, a ilexible head, and a flexible neck connecting the head and the stem, with openings through the head and neck to the opening through the stem, substantially as specified.

2. A soap-bubble blower, consisting of a tubular stem, and a flexible head connected with the stem, said head having a recess for liquid in its outer face and a passage connecting the recess with the opening through the stem, substantially as specified.

GASPAR W. METTLER. ADOLF METTLER. Witnesses:

V. R. HOLCOMB, H. R. WILLIAMS. 

